Synonyms of the word

amah

• n. In South Asia, a woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse.
• n. In China and Southeast Asia, a female domestic helper.

domestic

• adj. Of or relating to the home.
• adj. Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
• adj. (of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
• adj. Internal to a specific country.
• n. A house servant; a maid; a household worker.
• n. A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent.

housemaid

• n. A female servant attached to the non-servant quarter part of the house, as opposed to a scullery maid.
• n. (derogatory) A housewife.
• v. To be a housemaid.
• v. To wait on someone hand on foot, to watch them.

maid

• n. (dated or poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
• n. A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
• n. (archaic) A virgin of either gender.

maidservant

• n. A female servant; a maid.

nanny

• n. A child's nurse.
• n. (colloquial) A grandmother.
• n. A female goat.
• v. (pejorative) To treat like a nanny's charges; to coddle.

nurse

• n. (archaic) A wet-nurse.
• n. A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
• n. A person trained to provide care for the sick.
• n. One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
• n. (nautical) A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
• n. A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
• n. A nurse shark.
• v. to breastfeed.
• v. to care for the sick.
• v. to treat kindly and with extra care.
• v. to drink slowly.
• v. to foster, to nourish.
• v. to hold closely to one's chest.
• v. to strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.

nursemaid

• n. a woman or girl employed to care for children.
• v. To tend to as a nursemaid.
• v. (colloquial) To care for or look after.

wet-nurse

• n. Alternative spelling of wet nurse.

wetnurse

• n. Alternative spelling of wet nurse.
• v. Alternative spelling of wet nurse.